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  title info:
    title: Hindi is our ground, English is our sky
    sub title: education, language, and social class in contemporary India
  name:
    name part: LaDousa, Chaise.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xix, 215 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of "medium," the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division a.
  table of contents: Chapter 1 -- On Mother and Other Tongues: Language Ideology, Inequality, and Contradiction; Chapter 2 -- Disparate Markets: The Uneven Resonance of Language-Medium Schooling in the Nation; Chapter 3 -- Advertising in the Periphery: Modes of Communication and the Production of School Value; Chapter 4 -- An Alter Voice: Questioning the Inevitability of the Language-Medium Divide; Chapter 5 -- In and Out of the Classroom: A Focus on English; Conclusion; References; Index.
  note: Chaise LaDousa.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  classification: LC315.I4 L33 2014
  classification: 306.43 306.4320954
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Hindi is our ground, English is our sky
    name:
      name part: LaDousa, Chaise.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014
    identifier: (DLC) 2013022442
    identifier: (OCoLC)843862184
  identifier: 9781782382331 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 178238233X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781782382324 (hardback)
  identifier: 1782382321 (hardback)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 140201
    record change date: 20250816213807.8
    record identifier: in00003481411
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng